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March 5th./75
My Dear Son
Your two favors have reached me
here at Mrs Ropers. I have made no vis
its as yet except four days with Mrs
Harrell. I hope to get of[f] to our old home
in a few days as there is some prospect of
pleasant weather. Just now, we may send
up our remaining things to Houston by
the Sunday Boat as A P. says he has
an offer to rent the house.
I am so anxious
to get to the place called home, it makes
me feel sad & restless too, to see spring
opening and not be planting a garden & to know
I shall most likely be deprived of the benefits
of it & perhaps fruit also. I sometimes regret
I did not go sown to my own home & make
some arrangement to live there this year
as I most likely will be in discomfort
where I am intending to go. But hope
hope not. I do try so hard to feel contented
in my unsettled mind & body too. From
the way Sallie wrote the day she left she
was must have been very sad, she says “I go on=
ward tomorrow with a heavy heart to make
my home among strangers feeling no
attachment but for one little spot of earth
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and the farther I recede from it the sadder I
I am” I hope in time she may find relief and
make some pleasant acquaintances
I am glad to
hear your health is reestablished. I may come
up next Sunday week will let you know
I want to go out to Col. Sydnors after I return
from below and spend one day & night there.
I see Capt [ ]lair out training his race nag
every day suppose Doct Jourdan will be down
soon. Parties have come up from Gal[veston] to move
the Lodge for Col. S, but Sam told me they were
discouraged & afraid to make the attempt as the
ground is soft, one of the men said he had run
an Iron rod down ten feet & still found no
bottom. Sam will today finish Sydnors & APs
ware house, and then he will begin on a two
story house for the Col. to be put up in the
“Burg” don’t know exactly where; Mary Roper is in
Galveston & Mrs R is glad to have me with her, for company
Remember me kindly to Mrs Ashe & all the
family. Ten dollars will be sufficient to get
me off from here with. Elliot keeps very
well & talks all the time With best wishes
and much love I remain as ever
Your Mother in love. Mary Jones